Using poplib to parse headers

[Gerard Flanagan]

On May 27, 12:39 am, Jean-Claude Neveu <jcn-france1... at pobox.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am writing a Python program to check email using POP3. I've tried
> the sample code from python.org, and it works great. In other words,
> the code below successfully prints out my emails.
>
> import getpass, poplib, email
> M = poplib.POP3('mail.blah.com')
> M.user('username')
> M.pass_('password')
> numMessages = len(M.list()[1])
> for i in range(numMessages):
>      for j in M.retr(i+1)[1]:
>          print j
> M.quit()
>
> However, if I understand right, the Python poplib library will also
> parse the email for me so that I can iterate through the headers,
> body, etc, of each message, and use them in my program. I think the
> method I need to use is email.message_from_file, but I'm having
> difficulty getting it to work. Can anyone explain me how I would
> extend the above example to do this?
>
> I tried to do this by using in the i loop the line:
>
>         message = email.message_from_file(j)
>
> but I get the error: "AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'readline'"
>
> Please forgive this very basic question. I do most of my programming
> in PHP and I'm just getting started with Python.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> J-C

Here's something I wrote when I was learning Python:

http://gflanagan.net/site/python/pagliacci/pagliacci.py.html

HTH (if you can decipher it!)

Gerard